extenuate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extenuo, extenuare, extenuavi, extenuatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
make thin; diminish;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...minuunt et deprimunt nec, ut putatis, exacuunt, sed extenuant. Obsecro vos, tam necessariam curam maioribus melioribusque debitam..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...antris; sed tamen haeret amor crescitque dolore repulsae; extenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae adducitque cutem macies..."